The Masses. April 1911. No 4. by Winslow, Horatio [Ed]; Eugene Wood; Art Young, et al - 1911

An early issue of one of the most influential socialist magazines in history, a radical co-operative publication founded in Greenwich Village that published some of the most important authors and artists of the time, seeking to champion socialist ideology and co-operatives until it was ultimately shut down after a lengthy showdown with the government in which they stood trial accused of trying to "unlawfully and willfully…obstruct the recruiting and enlistment of the United States [military]". This issue contains articles on the Mexican Revolution and a profile of Victor L. Berger - "the first socialist congressman". Includes contributions by Thomas Seltzer, George Allen England, J. B. Larric, Eugene Wood, Ellis O. Jones, Hermann Sundermann, Carlo de Fornaro, W. J. Ghent, Edwin Björkman, Horatio Winslow, and Allan Updegrad. Illustrators include Art Young, Anton Otto Fischer, Horace Taylor, Frank Van Sloun, Carlo de Fornaro, Samuel Schwartz, and Marjorie Hood. Goldwater, 151. Quarto. 18pp, illustrated, frontispiece. Goldwater, 151. Quarto. Stapled wraps printed in brown ink on brown paper. Frontipiece is a photographic portrait of Victor L. Berger. Good. Covers separated at hinge, chipping to edges. Contents clean and intact.